Bagdad Burning

Here are what I think are the most interesting parts of recent posts from Baghdad Burning:

first, "I hate that a handful of expats who haven't been to the country in decades pretend to know more about it than people actually living there."

second, "In so many ways, Damascus is like Baghdad before the war- bustling streets, occasional traffic jams, markets seemingly always full of shoppers… And in so many ways it’s different.

third, "How is it that a border no one can see or touch stands between car bombs, militias, death squads and… peace, safety?

forth, "We didn’t sleep the night before we had to leave because there seemed to be so many little things to do… It helped that there was no electricity at all- the area generator wasn’t working and ‘national electricity’ was hopeless."

lastly, "We arranged for a distant cousin of my moms who was to stay in our house with his family to come the night before we left (we can’t leave the house empty because someone might take it)."